Improvement in cheese-formers for cider-presses



a. CLARK.

CHEESE-FORMERS FQR CIDER-PRESSES. No.187,100 Patented Feb. 6,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN CLARK, OF PONTIAC, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHEESE-FORMERS FOR CIDER -PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,100, dated February6, 1877; application tiled September 11, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN CLARK, of Pontiac, in the county of Oakland andState of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Oheese-Formers forCider-Presses, of which the following is a specification:

The object I have in view is in laying up a cheese for the cider-press,where each layer is folded up in a cloth, to secure uniformity ofthickness of all the layers in the mass or cheese, and thus secureuniform pressure on its entire area, and to avoid all tendency to breakthe pomace frames or racks. To this end it consists in the employment ofa guideframe, in combination with extended pomaceracks, as more fullyhereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the manner of laying up a cheesein a press. Fig. 2 is a cross-section at w m.

In the drawing, A represents the lower frame-Work of a cider-press, onwhich is laid a bed, B. O is a pomace-rack, which may be rigid, asshown, or flexible, as described in Letters Patent No. 148,034, issuedto me March 3, 1874. On this rack is laid a guideframe, D, whose bottomgirts are not spaced far enough apart to extend the full length of therack onwhioh they rest. A cloth, E, large enough to envelop the layer isthen laid on the rack, inside the frame, and opened out to receive thepomace, which is struck level with the girts of the frame, after whichthe cloth is folded over the leveled pomace, and the frame is liftedoff. The next and succeeding racks are in like manner laid on the first,and filled up, and a follower is placed on the upper one, when thecheese is ready to press. Laid up in this way, the several layers areuniform in thickness, and the cheese, in mass,

JOHN CLARK.

Witnesses:

JAMES A. J AGOKES, GEORGE W. SMITH.

